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It's the one in her dreams and everyone else's dreams as well. Or, she's smoking something.

Indeed, which public school is that? It sounds great!  
   
 
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MCPS middle school in Bethesda.

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Yea - my MCPS has 300 6th graders. When it was time for K - there were 12 K classes - if I moved (or could afford to move) 1 mile West my K class would have been 2 classes with 20 students in each class.

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I'm the PP who wrote the long email on "structure", and who you just quoted above.  Our MS is a little under 1,200 kids.  We might be talking about the same school.  I think that in some ways the orderliness is in response to having to manage such a huge number of diverse learners.  The school definitely feels less chaotic than the tiny progressive non-MCPS elementary school my child attended.

I want to be clear that it's not perfect.  No school is perfect, they all have strengths and weaknesses, but for some kids who are well rounded, socially skilled, and not performing at some rare academic level, some public schools can be a really good fit.  If a parent has decided that they need to move to find the right school (like the OP said), then exploring both public and private makes sense.

As far as affording to move, I pay less in rent in my district that I would pay in tuition at most DC or MD private schools.  Now, if my child went to private it would be with financial aid, but even if we chose to live somewhere less expensive and got 75% aid we'd likely be paying more total.  [/quote]

Agree. It's not all or nothing.[/quote]

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